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      <![CDATA[don't be so blind and yes, ignorant. this swastika HAS NOTHING to do with nazizm.
        
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      <![CDATA[A reasoned discussion weighs the import the symbol has for Jews and other victims of the Holocaust some 60 years ago--an import that many of the youth of Greenpoint know too well, as Joey Olszewski here tells us so eloquently. That cannot be dismissed with a wave of the hand and a "bah!
        
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      <![CDATA[That's correct--you don't have to legitimize symbols with force, but you did. In your hypothetical situation, Khmer Rouge adopting the Symbol of David is based on their ability to defy Hikind, which involves physical force--implicit at least.
        
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      <![CDATA[@johnny diamond - No. If you read what Richard New wrote, he clearly was not attributing pure ignorance to the Korean lady.
        
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      <![CDATA[That's cue for your upcoming ad hominem attack.
        
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      <![CDATA[@yo-yo pa: You legitimize symbols with force, implicit in a comparison of Khmer Rouge adopting the symbol of the Star of David. The "Korean lady's" problem was not that of force, however--it was one of ignorance about 'symbols.'
        
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      <![CDATA[@yo-yo pa<br>
"He's attributing "pure ignorance" to a Korean lady for selling what to her is a perfectly innocent thousand-year old Asian symbol, even though 99 percent of the people in her neighborhood understand it as a symbol of the greatest evil in human history."<br>
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      <![CDATA[He's attributing "pure ignorance" to people who condemn a Korean lady for selling what to her is a perfectly innocent thousand-year old Asian symbol. Which is completely legitimate.
        
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      <![CDATA[@ Richard New, what are you talking about? Your argument is preposterous: "This symbols has NOTHING to do with Nazism other than a resemblance."
        
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      <![CDATA[Thank you for this article.
        
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      <![CDATA[@Richard New<br>
No, we shouldn't ban it, obviously (though I kind of like your hysterical slippery slope examples). Also, attributing "pure ignorance" to people who're offended by the symbol (which is most of the non-neo Nazi western world) isn't really helping your case.
        
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      <![CDATA[I'm with Jim. This symbols has NOTHING to do with Nazism other than a resemblance.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Jim Wickson]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Well, there is a movement to do just that. I wish them success.<br>
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      <![CDATA[I don't think it should be banned in any legislative sense, but "reclaiming its original significance" doesn't seem likely.
        
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      <![CDATA[The shop owner does know the significance of the symbol. It's mostly Westerners who only associate the swastika with Adolf Hitler and the National Socialists.
        
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